Maine restaurant reportedly gets lobsters high on marijuana before boiling them to be more ‘humane’

An east coast seafood restaurant is using cannabis to ensure that their lobsters feel better before getting boiled alive.

Charlotte Gill, owner of Charlotte’s Legendary Lobster Pound in Maine’s Southwest Harbor, has adopted a ritual of boxing their lobsters in a thick plume of weed smoke before sending them off in a pot of boiling water, the Mount Desert Islander reports.

“The animal is already going to be killed,” said Gill. “It is far more humane to make it a kinder passage.”

Gill began using the technique after initially experimenting on a lobster named Roscoe, who became more relaxed and calm for three weeks after the hot-box session.

For those concerned about catching a contact high from their dinner, Gill claims that the THC breaks down at a temperature below the cooking point of a lobster, ensuring that neither the taste nor sensation would be compromised. Additionally, the restaurant only incorporates the cannabis ritual upon request.

While veterinary medicine experts aren’t even sure that lobsters have the same cannabinoid receptors to interact with THC, Gill still believes it’s the right thing to do.

“I have made enough mistakes in my 47 years that I want to make sure that every action moving forward is one that I can live with, and also to show my son that his mom stands for what she believes in,” Gill told local station WMTW. “This world has enough pain and suffering as it is. It’s time to make it a better place, and I’m going to do my part, by starting here with this one thing.”

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